Edition 3740: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.
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Today's Highlighted Video Story: An inquest into the arson murders of Hannah Clarke and her three children hears chilling details of her estranged husband Rowan Baxter including daily sexual demands, recorded phone calls and stalking through shopping centres.
Focus of the Day Article: Barristers will not be balloted on whether they are happy to accept the proposed £135m package of criminal legal aid reforms announced last week, the Criminal Bar Association has revealed. CBA chair Jo Sidhu QC said the government's response to Sir Christopher Bellamy's recommendations ‘betrays a wholesale failure to recognise the severity of the crisis currently engulfing our criminal justice system and the urgency needed to address that huge challenge’. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- What if our critics are right? | Law Gazette https://t.co/heDLdGc35c
- Doubt over PM claim that P&O sackings may be illegal https://t.co/YlsKDo0t12
- Murgitroyd appoints John Gillies as global people director | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NcRDGnnfYk
- Fighting racial discrimination together | Law Gazette https://t.co/SGEUFBnFuw
- Alastair Fiddes to join Gilson Gray as chief financial officer | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3pktE6a0X2
- MoJ shelves plans for further whiplash reform | Law Gazette https://t.co/N1rZWqt2TX
- Repeal of Human Rights Act ‘particularly unwise’ in light of Ukraine invasion | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NLN6ML2bSz
- Police officers in botched Rangers probe accused of perjury | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0CpKBBz9Tv
- Barristers to press ahead with legal aid action | Law Gazette https://t.co/k5KrsN58BR
- 7 years ago, a man was fined for pretending to be a ghost in Portsmouth cemetery. Police spokesman said of witnesses complaining about Anthony Stallard 'throwing his arms in the air and saying woooooo' https://t.co/EY1VLMMyvn
- Nearly two-thirds of new solicitors are women as gender gap widens - Legal Futures https://t.co/UsFwkxEsYA
- Delhi Riots hate speech: Delhi High Court expresses displeasure at "delinquent approach" of lawyers | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/qm2tj7XB4h
- More funding for ombudsman despite failings | Law Gazette https://t.co/rF6vxwRAsK
- What the metaverse means for lawyers - Legal Futures https://t.co/stmat5iEqe
- ReganWall grows with appointment of solicitor Deirdre Potenz | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ReLfJGY5sU
- The head teacher of the school where a black pupil was strip-searched should resign, Hackney's mayor says. A safeguarding report found the search of the girl, 15, known as Child Q was unjustified and racism was "likely" to have been a factor https://t.co/Hfoj0KjGfh
- Search
teams have found a black box from the #China Eastern flight which
nosedived into mountains in southern China this week. Chinese aviation
officials announced the finding at a press conference on Wednesday,
after two days of searching
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- A book that claimed to have solved the question of who betrayed Anne Frank has been recalled by its Dutch publisher. The investigating team unearthed a Jewish man called Arnold van den Bergh responsible for her and her family's arrests https://t.co/vmuPdSCKoK
- Suspended solicitor denied re-entry after nine years | Law Gazette https://t.co/EKlnB3C1i4
- Knights' share price dives after profits warning - Legal Futures https://t.co/dy1xvJMxmC
- A huge marble memorial featuring a solar-powered jukebox has been built in a city cemetery without permission. The memorial to William Collins, who died in Spain in 2020, is thought to have been erected about a week ago at Sheffield's Shiregreen Cemetery https://t.co/5IHoZtCcy8
- P&O Ferries has said 800 redundant staff will be offered £36.5m in total - with around 40 getting more than £100,000 each https://t.co/BAm8XHQSrI
- The Law Society of Scotland has called on the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) to focus more on its core role in handling legal complaints and go further in controlling its costs | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cNQX1GesxY
- Mishcon sued for up to £65m over collapsed property deal | Law Gazette https://t.co/d69ayBkUYQ
- “Core of dissatisfaction” with lawyers fuelling complaints to LeO - Legal Futures https://t.co/BER4P5PLwl
- Lee Squires joins ByrneWallace as partner and head of indirect taxes | Irish Legal News https://t.co/vNVjC5jDyk
- Lack of transcripts 'prejudices employment hearings' | Law Gazette https://t.co/33sQcbImBi
- John Barilaro tells court he felt ‘broken’ after Friendlyjordies videos appeared on YouTube #Australia https://t.co/eHszBre8M2
- MoJ finally responds to part 2 of whiplash consultation - five years on - Legal Futures https://t.co/IcRsm28vuu
- Guardian wins legal challenge over access to employment tribunal papers - Ruling builds on recent judgments enhancing rights of reporters to access documents placed before court https://t.co/4SiiNPk7Vu
- Former actress Amanda Bynes has been released from her nine-year conservatorship by a judge in California. The one-time child star was placed under the legal guardianship - similar to that of Britney Spears - in 2013, while undergoing psychiatric care #US https://t.co/4JRcc73UgM
- Former MP can protect Birmingham bombings source | Law Gazette https://t.co/OOFRsa1hGR
- Spend a day with me in the eviction court, Mr Sunak, and you’ll understand the ‘cost of living’ https://t.co/PzmCCmCob9
- Florida governor Ron DeSantis has signed a proclamation recognising runner-up Emma Weyant as the winner of the highest #US women's national college swimming title - an event she lost to transgender Lia Thomas https://t.co/eECFaMRXpa
- Family members, friends and colleagues have paid tribute to Gemma Lodge, a senior associate at DLA Piper, and former Law Society social mobility champion who has died at a tragically early age | Law Gazette https://t.co/khPjJn9xw8
